Wrighty: ‘It’s imploding at Arsenal; Arsene looks lost’

With a 1-5 deficit from the first leg and the sickening 1-3 loss to Liverpool last weekend, Arsene Wenger just needs a reaction from his players as they face Bayern Munich in the second leg on Tuesday. The likelihood of the Gunners overturning a 5-1 deficit, and given current circumstances, is nearly impossible.

If Arsenal are to have any chance whatsoever of turning this around, they need a lightning-fast start.

“Everybody talks about the leaders that Arsenal need”. Spain’s Deportivo La Coruna came nearest when they recovered from a 4-1 defeat at AC Milan in 2004 to win 4-0 at home for a place in the last four. These are the characteristics the Gunners are often questioned on.

Two quick-fire goals saw Real Madrid survive an early scare to win 3-1 at Napoli on Tuesday and reach the Champions League quarter-finals for a seventh successive time.

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Arsenal have been swept aside for the second game in a row in the Champions League.

If only Arsenal had someone on the bench that could improve them.

While his eight goals in the Premier League has been a decent return, it’s his record in Europe that has been really impressive.

Speaking on Monday, ahead of the match, the team captain urged his teammates to show some fight, something they haven’t been doing in recent times. The pair now sit 5th and 6th in the standings. A wonderful ball lifted into the six-yard box was met by the Frenchman, who’s forceful downward header ended up on the wrong side of the post. Again, that’s another characteristic of this Arsenal. That they will omit the character shown by the home side is acceptable, such is the hame of the 10-2 aggregate defeat.

Giroud then had a good chance but was well marshalled by Mats Hummels as he looked to get his head on the end of a Sanchez cross. Was part of a defence that went AWOL in the last half hour.

The Gunners had their backs to the wall but started well and took a deserved lead through Theo Walcott before Bayern reacted after the interval. But whilst their Champions League dreams for this season die a death, don’t kill next year’s too.

Bayern made the trip to London in confident mood after a lengthy winning run and German midfielder Thomas Muller expects the feelgood factor to shine through against Arsenal.